"At the same time, we have also obtained information, there is no large-scale enemy army in Shiyan Town at present, and it is estimated that only one regiment of troops is stationed in it!"

"The main force of our army is moving south, and it is not a big problem to take the town, and the follow-up enemy army may carry out large-scale counter-replenishment, including the transfer of troops from other areas of Lingchang, and even the transfer of some troops from Yonggu County to help."

"And we will build a perfect fortification before they arrive, give better play to our equipment advantages through the fortifications, and completely lay our strategic advantage in the area north of the South Purple River through a defensive operation, and lay a strategic foundation for the subsequent southward Lingchang and even the county town!"

Speaking of this, Wu Guanlin paused slightly and looked around at the crowd: "According to our many actual battles, we have a better understanding of the performance and application of rear-loading rifles, and in actual combat, we found that the advantages of our rear-loading rifles will be greater than that of offensive and defensive operations!" ”

"Because our soldiers can build trenches and other fortifications in advance and fight directly inside the fortifications, and trench fortifications can effectively defend against enemy artillery fire and avoid exposing our soldiers to enemy rifle fire!"

"And if the enemy wants to attack, they can only launch an infantry charge, and when the enemy attacks in a line formation, they are met by our army's breech-loading rifle fire, I think your colleagues have also seen the example!"

"In addition, even if the enemy rushes forward regardless of casualties, we have prepared another weapon, and that is a grenade for close defense!"

At this time, Lin Ziran said in a timely manner: "Today, the Qingshan factory just sent a batch of grenades, different from the grenades with the fire rope fuse in the past, now this kind of grenade uses a delayed fuse, which is simpler, more convenient and safe to use, and the soldiers of the garrison battalion are very satisfied with the effect after testing!" ”

Grenades are nothing new, Daheng was equipped with grenades more than a hundred years ago, and developed the grenadier as a troop.

During the battle, these grenadiers rushed up in a dense formation, and then threw grenades directly into the enemy's line, but in the early days, these grenades were heavy and usually ignited with an arquebus, so the safety was really poor.

Later, the performance of artillery became better and better, coupled with the technology of front-loading muskets was also getting better and better, and the tactics of infantry were slowly changing.

Even in the Heng Olympic War more than 50 years ago, it has basically disappeared.

As for Lin Ziran, as an earthling, he naturally knows the role of grenades, and this thing is useless in frontal line operations in the field, but it is very useful in defensive operations, especially for the Sixth Division, which is equipped with rear-loading rifles.

Because many of the tactics of the Sixth Division are already more and more inclined to the trench combat system.

Digging trenches to advance during the offensive and digging trenches to defend during the defense can completely allow the soldiers to hide in the trenches and shoot or throw grenades.

Times are changing, tactics are innovating, and the ancient weapon of grenades is once again being revitalized.

However, although grenades are mentioned, the projected Battle of Shiyan will still rely on rear-loading rifles and rear-loading artillery.

At the same time, a large number of front-loading artillery will also become an important force.

Wu Guanlin continued: "As long as we build a complete defense system in Shiyan Town, which is enough to completely blockade the Nanzi River and force the enemy to take the initiative to launch a counteroffensive, then we will be able to rely on the fortifications to kill and injure a large number of enemy troops, thus reversing the current crisis in Pingdan and Yonggu!" ”

"Once their supply line is cut off, then the remaining 30,000 troops deployed by the county guard in Pingdan County and Yonggu County will face a collapse situation, even if they want to break through, it will be difficult, and as long as these more than 30,000 troops are annihilated, then when we go south in the future, we will not encounter any big obstacles!"

Wu Guanlin's battle plan, Lin Ziran has seen and agreed, the core of this battle plan is to take Shiyan Town as the center, force the enemy army to take the initiative to counterattack Shiyan Town, and then kill and injure a large number of enemy troops.

To some extent, this is a plan for encirclement operations, except that this encirclement does not mean running directly to the front to intercept face-to-face, but detouring to their rear to seize strategic points.

If the enemy does not counterattack Shiyan Town, then their logistics line will be staged, and if the enemy tries to give up and retreat south, then the 6th Division will also be able to continue to maneuver along the Nanzi River to intercept.

This time, Lin Ziran made up his mind to pay attention to the more than 30,000 troops of Jian Minggang.

Otherwise, it will have a major impact on the subsequent southward operation.

Once the 30,000 Jian Minggang army escapes back, if they want to continue to go south, they will encounter great resistance, not only from the county guard's side, but even Zhao Song's side may drag their own hind legs.

And Shiyan Town seems to be just a small town, but it is a strategic place, after controlling the place, even if Zhao Song wants to go south to intervene in the future, then he has to fight Shiyan Town first.

Lin Ziran knew very well that there was not much time left for him.

It is estimated that in a few days, the news of the fiasco of Pingdan City will reach the ears of Jian Minggang, and his own rear-loading rifles and rear-loading artillery will also reach their ears.

But a breech-loading rifle will definitely be able to make a whole bunch of them.

When the time comes, it will be more troublesome to fight again.

Now Lin Ziran doesn't know that Jian Minggang has already asked the Luo'an Arsenal to imitate the rear-loading rifle, which is just the kind of paper-shell bullet rear-loading rifle of the South China Sea New Army, and the performance of the rate of fire and range is far inferior to the Qingshan rifle.

In the evening, the strategic meeting went very smoothly, and most of the time Wu Guanlin was explaining the strategic arrangements, and after waiting for more than an hour, the generals of each unit returned to their units to prepare for tomorrow's march south.

This night, many of the generals of the Sixth Division stayed up all night to make all kinds of preparations, but those ordinary soldiers and grassroots officers could get a good night's sleep.

That night, many middle and senior generals of the Sixth Division were preparing for the next day's southward battle.

The county guards in other directions also got the news, and the first to get the news was naturally the defenders of Shiyan Town, and this news also instantly caused panic among the defenders of Shiyan Town.

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